The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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